# Horizontal wisdom *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Apr 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nigel Price *20 Apr 2002, 20:25* A few days ago, Nutria wrote concerning my rejection of Peter Wright's explanation of Severian's adventures as a cynical exercise in extra-terrestrial manipulation: >> Yes, surely. This interpretation makes sense >> only if Sev. is some kind of antichrist in an >> antiuniverse made by an antigod -- which is >> what I thought the first time through. But Wolfe >> has made it plain that this is not the case at >> all, and the thesis does not stand up on rereading. Yes! Absolutely! Thank you, too, Nutria, for _lling me in on US conventions about capitalisation following a semi-colon. (I've enjoyed your other _ne contributions to recent dicussions too.) Nigel ---